Running on ego
Maybe I’m the only one. I don’t
know but I see a lot of people on power trips. Arrogance and pride.
I’m better than this person or that person. For all our attitudes
as humans we still tip over easy when trying to put the most basic clothing
item underwear on. Try it sometime right after getting out of the shower.
If you have nothing to brace yourself on you will easily fall. God
has a better plan for us. Seriously when was the last time you thanked a
waiter or waitress? When did you last thank the cleaning crew at work.
I got humbled by my wife recently. She thought I didn’t appreciate
the things she did around the house. Our pride let’s us take things and
people for granted and it’s not good. When was the last time you thanked
the person who cleans the port a potty?
James 4:10
“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and
he will lift you up in honor.”
Someone posted on Facebook recently and
it caught my attention because in the next verses I’m going to show you God
asks us to bring our problems to him, but we must first be humble. We
have to admit he is God, and we are not.
1 Peter 5:5-7
“In the same way, you younger men must
accept the authority of the elders. And all of you serve each other in
humility, for God opposes the proud but favors the humble. So, humble
yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift
you up in honor. Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares
about you.”
I’m a fan of many things and lately
I’ve been watching a lot of Star Wars the Clone Wars and Anakin Skywalker keeps
wanting the title of Master. If you follow his story though it’s his
pride that becomes his undoing and he becomes more and more resentful and evil.
God wants us to humble ourselves and treat others as better than
ourselves. Just because I’m a husband doesn’t make me better than Marion.
She’s my wife and friend and I’m to treat her better.
We all put underwear on one leg at a
time. Humble yourself before God.
DeGarmo and Key said it correctly
“Some people nervous ‘bout their place
in life
Running on ego never satisfies
Some aren’t happy till they’re king of
the land
But I don’t worry cause I’m in God’s
hand.
He's
the Master, I'm the servant,
He's the King, I'm the subject,
He's the Ultimate Ruler of it all,
He's the Master, I'm the servant,
He's the King, I'm the subject,
He's the Ultimate Ruler of it all.”
We can humble ourselves or God will
humble us. At the end of life, we will
all confess Jesus is Lord.
Philippians 2:3-11
“Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit,
but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;
do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also the interests
of others. Have this attitude in
yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who although He existed in the form
of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped but emptied
Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of
men. Being found in the appearance as a
man, He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even on a
cross. For this reason, God highly
exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at
the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth
and under the earth and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.”
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